X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=notes%2Fsexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-notes.md;h=170493efe114272acadb0238866e00f44645a161;hp=73881555b4c8b25ea355768dc8eac5521980091f;hb=d92b92d6e08f7d2c3bf4d8153e985ce755a4f520;hpb=3f0c8dff6a78f742ff84fd3664ba879d3332ca0c diff --git a/notes/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-notes.md b/notes/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-notes.md index 7388155..170493e 100644 --- a/notes/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-notes.md +++ b/notes/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-notes.md @@ -1,34 +1,73 @@ -Incidents to Include— +Marketing— -Done(ish)— -✓ "Failed Utopia 4-2" -✓ "Changing Emotions" +To LW— + +_(content warning sexism)_ +_(content warning transphobia)_ +_(content warning too much information about weird fetishes)_ +_(content warning WTF did I just read)_ + +(November 2020, [TODO] words) + +---- + +On Twitter— + +WTF transphobic garbage did I just read?? Too bad Yudkowsky can't control how creepy randos on the internet interpret his work ... + +----- + +To SneerClub— + +Hi SneerClub! I noticed that you've enjoyed some of my [previous](https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/fw9cng/the_lgbt_activist_machinery_instead_adapted/) [work](https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/61t94y/rationalist_tries_justifying_their_transphobia_by/), so I thought I would go ahead and proactively share this one with you, because (I'm guessing) it probably checks a lot of the boxes for top sneerable content: it's got Yudkowsky hero-worship, _and_ sexism (as many of you would define that), _and_ transphobia (as many of you would define that), _and_ weird sex stuff! (Oh, and a tiny bit of racism (as many of you would define that) at the end.) + +(From _my_ perspective, I'm pouring my heart out about the most important thing in my life, but if someone else with a different perspective would only sneer, then I can only hope to have been—if only for a moment, as part of a subroutine in the optimal sneer computation—_understood_. And for that moment, I am grateful.) + +---- + +B.F. on JKR (https://www.facebook.com/duncan.sabien/posts/3883966591638029?comment_id=3884054068295948&reply_comment_id=3884243454943676): +> I am very glad that I don't have anyone with opinions similar to hers in my immediate vicinity, because I am pretty sure that if I did, my brain would constantly be running a scared loop in any social interactions with them. [...] I think it's important that people can write essays that are as far outside my personal Overton window as hers is outside it (because sometimes they're correct and I should update, even though I don't believe this is an instance of that) -Easy— -* love of a man for a woman, and vice versa as separate fragments of value -* Psychological Unity of Humankind is only up to sex +----- +Points to work in— * Superhappies empathic inference for not wanting to believe girls were different +https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/qCsxiojX7BSLuuBgQ/the-super-happy-people-3-8 * "The Opposite Sex" https://web.archive.org/web/20130216025508/http://lesswrong.com/lw/rp/the_opposite_sex/ * EY was right about "men need to think about themselves _as men_" (find cite) * Vassar slapping me down * "Mr. Davis" -* I'm not actually very good at first-person visualization, which demonstrates something -* study evidence that this is actually common -* AGPs dating each other is the analogue of "Failed Utopia 4-2"!! - - -Harder— * Faster Than Science, Transgender Edition (prior draft) * "I often wish some men/women would appreciate" * empathic inference: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/NLMo5FZWFFq652MNe/sympathetic-minds https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Zkzzjg3h7hW5Z36hK/humans-in-funny-suits https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/9fpWoXpNv83BAHJdc/the-comedy-of-behaviorism - -"different thing that I don't understand" /2019/Jan/interlude-xvi/ - +* study evidence that this is actually common +* AGPs dating each other is the analogue of "Failed Utopia 4-2"!!—the guys in "Conservative Men in Conservative Dresses" are doing better in some ways * wipe culturally defined values * finding things in the refrigerator * https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/FBgozHEv7J72NCEPB/my-way https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xsyG7PkMekHud2DMK/of-gender-and-rationality +* make sure the late-onset/AGP terminology is introduced in a coherent order rather than being inserted willy-nilly + +----- + +Outline for remaining Coda— + * you can doubt someone's theory without doubting their report-as-data + * what "as a first approximation" means in causal graphs + * people have a political incentive to deny, but I'm making a fact-claim + * I would have expected the "rationalists" to be interested in getting the right answer (quote the "20% of the ones with penises" Facebook post), but it doesn't look like that's happening + +people colluding to maintain a thin layer of social constructions; lies to cis people + +[sympathetic minds gay couples anecdote] +Anne Lawrence described autogynephiles as ["men who love women and want to become what they love."](/papers/lawrence-becoming_what_we_love.pdf) But it's worse than that. We're men who love what we _wish_ women were, and want to become _that_. + +[I have seen the destiny of my neurotype, and am putting forth a convulsive effort to wrench it off its path. My weapon is clear writing.](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/i8q4vXestDkGTFwsc/human-evil-and-muddled-thinking) + + +----- + +"different thing that I don't understand" /2019/Jan/interlude-xvi/ + Be careful to phrase the early part as about _me_, and only point fingers at trans women in the coda @@ -62,7 +101,6 @@ learned things in the wrong order Anyway, I kind of spent the next ten years reading everything I could about sex and gender and transgender and feminism and evopsych and doing various things with my social presentation—sometimes things I regretted and reverted after a lot of pain—to try to seem not-masculine, - all the while assuming that my gender problems were clearly not the same thing as the gender problems of actual trans women, because the standard narrative was that that's @@ -86,22 +124,8 @@ writes down all the facts that aren't on anyone's side. ----- -_(content warning sexism)_ -_(content warning transphobia)_ -_(content warning too much information about weird fetishes)_ -_(content warning WTF did I just read)_ - -(November 2020, [TODO] words) - ----- - -WTF transphobic garbage did I just read?? Too bad @ESYudkowsky can't control how creepy randos on the internet interpret his work - ------ -Hi SneerClub! I noticed that you've enjoyed some of my [previous](https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/fw9cng/the_lgbt_activist_machinery_instead_adapted/) [work](https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/61t94y/rationalist_tries_justifying_their_transphobia_by/), so I thought I would go ahead and proactively share this one with you, because (I'm guessing) it probably checks a lot of the boxes for top sneerable content: it's got Yudkowsky hero-worship, _and_ sexism (as many of you would define that), _and_ transphobia (as many of you would define that), _and_ weird sex stuff! -(From _my_ perspective, I'm pouring my heart out about the most important thing in my life, but if someone else with a different perspective would only sneer, then I can only hope to have been—if only for a moment, as part of a subroutine in the optimal sneer computation—_understood_. And for that moment, I am grateful.) Sometimes I sigh because I'll never get rich @@ -119,10 +143,6 @@ Just 'cause I'm butch and I'm a tranny girl -[sympathetic minds gay couples anecdote] -Anne Lawrence described autogynephiles as ["men who love women and want to become what they love."](/papers/lawrence-becoming_what_we_love.pdf) But it's worse than that. We're men who love what we _wish_ women were, and want to become _that_. - -[I have seen the destiny of my neurotype, and am putting forth a convulsive effort to wrench it off its path. My weapon is clear writing.](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/i8q4vXestDkGTFwsc/human-evil-and-muddled-thinking) https://archive.is/7Wolo > the massive correlation between exposure to Yudkowsky’s writings and being a trans woman (can’t bother to do the calculations but the connection is absurdly strong) @@ -179,3 +199,43 @@ But the angle between the line between me and my sister, and the line between me http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2016/09/concerns-ii/ address GI->AGP direction + +(The scintillating but ultimately untrue thought.) + +Fit in somewhere— +https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/KmghfjH6RgXvoKruJ/hand-vs-fingers + +I'm not objecting to your existence, I'm only objecting to the prerequisites to your existence + + +(See Tailcalled on "zooming in" on the typology to at least a four node graph.) + +But once you stop taking the "gender identity"/"woman trapped in a man's body" story as _axiom_ and + + +It's possible to disagree with people's _theoretical account_ of their own psychology, without doubting the honesty of their self-report, in the sense that people are doing their best to translate the ineffable _qualia_ of their experience into words. + +[throw a chair](/2019/Jan/use-it-or-lose-it/) and yell, "How dumb do you think we are?!" + +The claim is not that the trans woman who describes her experience as an "internal sense of her own gender" is lying. + +If someone claims to have an inter + +https://surveyanon.wordpress.com/2019/10/27/the-mathematical-consequences-of-a-toy-model-of-gender-transition/ + +You might ask, what do I mean by "as a first approximation"? + +/2018/Jan/dont-negotiate-with-terrorist-memeplexes/#a-thing-about-me + +Men who fantasize about being women do not particularly resemble actual women! We just—don't? This seems kind of obvious, really? _Telling the difference between fantasy and reality_ is kind of an important life skill?! + +_You have to let me show you what you are_. + + +> The absolute inadequacy of every single institution in the civilization of magical Britain is what happened! You cannot comprehend it, boy! I cannot comprehend it! It has to be seen and even then it cannot be believed! +http://www.hpmor.com/chapter/108 + +> The realization blasted through Harry like a vast dam breaking, releasing out all its water, bursting through his mind in an irresistible flood that swept everything away. +> There is only one reality that generates all of the observations. + +(http://www.hpmor.com/chapter/104) \ No newline at end of file